São Tomé and Principe

Under a new project, WFP São Tomé and Príncipe is planning to hand over its school meals programme to the Government in 2016. The process is planned to start in October 2013 when the government will take full responsibility of running the school feeding programme in three out of seven districts of São Tomé and Príncipe.

WFP has welcomed an announcement by the Government of Japan that it intends to donate US$5.7 million (JPY 670 million) to assist more than 1.5 million chronically hungry people in three of Africa’s least developed countries: Somalia, Guinea, and Sao Tome and Principe.